Keyb vs Raven
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Keyb
Boost your typing efficiency with a custom keyboard that allows you to save and reuse text snippets. Enhance your messages with dynamic placeholders for clipboard content, dates, and location. Seamlessly integrate across all your apps for consistent productivity.
- Reusable text snippets
- Dynamic snippets with placeholders
- Clipboard integration (Pro)
- Text transformation
- Cross-app compatibility
- Unlimited categories/snippets (Pro)
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Keyb is your productivity keyboard! ### Save time with reusable snippets ### Save time by using predefined text snippets for common phrases you frequently type, such as email replies, greetings, code templates, or personal information. Organize these snippets into categories for easy access. ### Dynamic snippets with placeholders ### Enhance your snippets with placeholders that automatically insert: - Text from the clipboard - Text selected in a text field - Current date and time - Current location (as coordinates, address, or URL) - Transform text in a text field (uppercase, lowercase, capitalize) - … and more! ### Seamless integration across all apps ### Switch to the Keyb keyboard and paste your snippets into any text field in any app, boosting productivity across all your iOS applications. ### Permissions Required for Extended Features ### Some features require enabling "Full Access" for the keyboard extension in system settings.
Raven
This app allows you to quickly open and write markdown notes as plain .md files. It offers fast launch times, native performance on iPhone and Mac, and seamless syncing between devices. Your notes are stored directly in your file system for easy access and integration with other tools.
- Plain .md file storage
- Under a second launch time
- Native iPhone and Mac app
- Full-text search
- Nested folders and pinned notes
- Syncs between Mac and iPhone
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Beautiful notes. Never locked in. Raven is a native Markdown notes app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Write, journal, capture articles, and turn checkboxes into reminders—without putting your work in a proprietary note format. WRITE WITH CONTEXT Create notes with tables, images, checklists, code blocks, wiki links, and backlinks. Organize them with folders and tags, pin what matters, and find anything with full-text search. TURN NOTES INTO ACTION A checkbox can become a task with a due date and time. Raven gathers open tasks from across your notes, keeps each one linked to its source, and can send a local reminder when it is due. Complete or snooze it from the notification. JOURNAL WITHOUT ANOTHER SILO Daily and weekly journals live beside the rest of your writing. Save articles to Read Later, or capture a thought from widgets, Shortcuts, and the share sheet. MARKDOWN YOU CAN KEEP Raven works offline without an account. Keep notes on this device, choose a folder on Mac, or use iCloud Drive to keep the same Markdown files available in Files and Finder across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. No proprietary note format. No forced account. One purchase, with no subscription.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Keyb at $3.99 against Raven's $12.99. Keyb also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). Raven's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and review sentiment (75% vs 50%). On rating, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Keyb costs $3.99 and Raven $12.99 up front. Keyb sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Raven asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Keyb against 5.0 for Raven. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of Keyb's written reviews are positive against 75% of Raven's.
Keyb ships an update weekly, Raven every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Keyb | Raven |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 — better | $12.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #198 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 88 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Christian Lobach | Thomas Sivilay |
Customer experience
Keyb
Raven
In-app purchases
Keyb
- Keyb Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
- Keyb Pro Yearly3 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Keyb Pro Lifetime$59.99
Raven
No in-app purchases









